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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | Re: touch: enhancement request to preserve file ownership and permissions |
| Date: | Wed, 12 Sep 2007 22:20:36 -0600 |
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Peter Newman on 9/12/2007 9:18 PM: > > Add option "-p" to be used only in conjunction with "-r" so that the file > owner, group and file permissions are "preserved" (copied) from the > referenced file as well as the timestamp. How is this different from the current two-step process 'chmod --ref=reffile yourfile && touch --ref=reffile yourfile'? - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake address@hidden -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG6LqU84KuGfSFAYARAg6gAKCNe5JbAoMOijT0lhgN4vE/O+YAzwCgv3Ul uGCrhOZCdiS9W0uLonsHtLM= =qAUv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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